Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-09-02
OREGON NEWS.
rvsrvthing Of General Interest In q
Condensed Form.

Frad Shrenebelas has been appoih'eu
acting postmaster at Lafayette .oo
grizzly bear, weighing l,4oo
mounds, was killed near Baker CITY,
Woodville people will coon dig a
ditch to supply them with water from
Evans Greek.
Crop reports from umaulla SNOW
acre.
Lane County hop growers com
plain Of scarcity OF help to PICK the
crop.
A new quartz mill is TO be erected
in the Quartxburg mines, Grant
county. /,
Heppper and vicinity have raised
and shipped 100000 pounds OF wool
this season.
Ashland is to receive another per-
manent attraction in the shape OF a
normal school.
Mr.. Westfall, Of Independence, boasts
of having a child with twelve fingers
and twelve toes.
A IA year old son Of w. M. Gregory
of jacksonville, was drowned in Butte
Creek while bathing.
Several brick buildings and a w..
600 Touring mill are being constructed
in Heppner this summer.
VIM. Ray, who resides on the APP
plegate, Jackson County, had two val
liable horses killed by lightning.
| A lot of ore from mines near Me-
hama was worked at the Portland re-
duction works, and averaged 1884 per
ton.
Work on the breakwater at the
mouth of the Coquille is progressing
rapidly. The extension is now nearly
$50 feet.
A large acreage Of the crops OF this
county that was intended for grain
was cut this year for hay, says the
Prineville Neacs.
The Oregon editors have formed a
State association. The next meeting
will be held in Albany on the second
Friday in October.
Fish traps have nearly destroyed
Bakers Bay as harbor, and year or
two more will shoal it so steamers can
not land at Ilwaco.
Mr.. John Pierce's barn, containing
fifteen tons Of timothy hay, was burned
also about one mile of fence, says the
Roseburg Plaindealer.
An additional 60 mile contract has
been let on the Oregon Pacific Railroad
to George w. Hunt. This will com.
plete the road to the summit OF The
Cascades.
i Chinese sheepherders do not prove
to BIZ a success, says the Arlington
Times. Several have been tried this
year in the mountains around here
and they lose sheep badly.
Oliver Connect shot and killed VIM
Turner, ON Vessey creek, in the Ochoco
country. Both were sheep-herders
On preliminary examination, Connect
was acquitted on the ground OF self.
defense.
Diphtheria is raging in Summer
vile to an alarming extent, says the
Baker City Democrat. The disease at
tacks the old as well as the young. In
one day there occurred five deaths in
that town.
| The O. & w. T. Company has leveled
ground at Helix for depot. The 0
r. T. N. surveyors have located theil
road from Helix to Adams, and are
progressing through the Cold Spring
country toward the Columbia. They
have their camp at Helix.
| According to the Prineville News
the upper Deschuttes neighborhood
went in body the other day and tolc
certain sheep firm not to drive
through any more homesteads, pre-
emptions, or other claims, without frs
asking PERMISSION of the owner. The
firm agreed.
A. ID. johnson and Dan Shaw dis
covered two men driving several heat
OF their cattle across the north fork O
the John Day River. Shaw immedi
ately started for Alba and raised ,
crowd, and they rounded up the thieves
IN the mountains between the Nortl
Fork and Desolation and took them il
custody.
] VIM. Vickers, an Oregon desperate
was shot and instantly killed at Shiek'
ranch, in Guano Valley, while resistin,
arrest on charge of murder b,
Sheriff George Dunning, of Owyhe,
County, Idaho. A boy 10 years O
age, who fired ON the Sheriff in Wicker
defense, Was also killed by the Sheriff
The Sheriff lodged three bullets il
Vlcker's brain, and blew the top of tn,
boys head off at the first fire.
The Portland World relates the fol
lowing: Congressman Herman and ,
TREND when travelling through Eastern
Oregon recently came to house abou
night time in the Harvey Valley. TIL,
friend being snubbed by the woman O
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